Ted Baker debuts 360º shoppable film

Ted Baker debuts 360º shoppable film

Fashion brand Ted Baker is launching a new comedy sitcom, featuring a shoppable virtual reality film and an Instagram story. The sitcom tells the story of the Baker family who appear to be the picture of suburban utopia, yet beneath the airs and graces the family aren’t quite what they seem. Ted Baker’s social channels […]

Technology ‘leapfrog’ to smartphones sees 40% of Asian brands invest in SMS advertising

Technology ‘leapfrog’ to smartphones sees 40% of Asian brands invest in SMS advertising

Despite its status as the least popular method globally, text message advertising is one of the most popular channels for Asian marketers, according to an ad-tech company report. Marin Software’s State of Digital Advertising 2017 study – including a sample of 500 agencies and brands worldwide – suggested that nearly 40 per cent of advertisers […]

AdColony Partners with UFC to Launch High-Performing Instant-Play HD Vertical Video

AdColony Partners with UFC to Launch High-Performing Instant-Play HD Vertical Video

AdColony, the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world, released industry-leading results for its Instant-Play HD Vertical Video launch campaigns for brands across top mobile apps. Advertisers and their respective campaigns include UFC for UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey, a premium cable television network, a global consumer tech and entertainment platform and other Fortune 500 brands. […]

Spotify and Waze partner for easy music listening and navigating

Spotify and Waze partner for easy music listening and navigating

Music streaming platform Spotify has integrated with traffic and navigation app Waze, and vice versa, to make it easier to control music and follow routes at the same time. The integration will enable users to navigate to a destination within the Spotify app, or control their playlists from Waze app while following directions. In addition, […]

McDonald’s to trial mobile ordering app in the US

McDonald’s to trial mobile ordering app in the US

Fast food chain McDonald’s has been slow to embrace mobile ordering but from March 2017, the burger specialists will begin testing its own app in the US in order to iron out the type of kinks experienced by the likes of Starbucks. Digital ordering is the holy grail of restaurant chains but few have mastered the technology […]

Mobivity Joins Early Access Program from Google to Bring RCS Messaging to Businesses

Mobivity Joins Early Access Program from Google to Bring RCS Messaging to Businesses

Mobivity Holdings Corp., the provider of SmartSuite, an award-winning mobile marketing and customer engagement platform, announced they are joining a new early access program for RCS (Rich Communications Services) business messaging from Google. The new program, designed for brand marketers, will help businesses upgrade their mobile messaging from SMS to RCS, delivering more detailed and […]

Pandora introduces premium on-demand music service

Pandora introduces premium on-demand music service

Music streaming service Pandora has introduced its first ever on-demand service, as it finally provides an answer to the services offered by the likes of Spotify, Apple and Amazon. The new Pandora Premium service will cost $9.99 (£8.23) a month and enable users to experience Pandora’s radio service, while also being able to search for […]